scholarly journals Efficacy of Psychoedcation on Improving Attitudes Towards Professional Psychological Help Seeking for a Mental Illness Among Teacher Trainees in Kenya

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nyavanga Eunice Jemalel
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Psychological Help ◽  
Professional Psychological Help ◽  
Teacher Trainees

Influencing factors of attitudes toward seeking professional help for mental illness among Korean adults

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subin Park ◽  
Mina Jeon ◽  
Yeeun Lee ◽  
Young-Mi Ko ◽  
Chul Eung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Psychological Help ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Help Seeking Attitudes ◽  
Professional Psychological Help ◽  
Korean Adults ◽  
Positive Attitudes

Objectives: Identifying predictors of psychological help-seeking attitudes is essential to improve access to needed mental health services. We investigated factors – particularly Big Five personality traits – that affect attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help for mental illness among Korean adults. Methods: A total of 654 participants aged 15–54 years were recruited through an online panel survey. Help-seeking attitudes for mental illness were measured by the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale (ATSPPH), and personality traits were measured by the Big Five Personality Inventory-10. Results: Multivariate analyses showed that female gender, history of psychiatric diagnosis, agreeableness and openness to experience were significantly associated with positive attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help for mental illness. Conclusions: These findings suggest that specific personality traits should be considered when developing strategies to promote positive attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help. Further research using a representative community sample is needed to generalize our findings.

Role of Stigma and Attitudes Toward Help-Seeking from a General Practitioner for Mental Health Problems in a Rural Town

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 514-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Wrigley ◽  
Henry Jackson ◽  
Fiona Judd ◽  
Angela Komiti
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Psychological Help ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Perceived Stigma ◽  
Professional Psychological Help ◽  
Mental Health Issues

Objective: To examine the role of perceived stigma and attitudes to seeking care in predicting help-seeking from a general practitioner (GP) for mental health problems. Method: Across-sectional surveyin 2002 with self-repor t questionnaires assessing current levels of symptomatology, disability, attitudes towards mental illness, knowledge of prevalence and causes of mental illness, contact with mental illness and help-seeking behaviour and preferences and attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help. Results: No significant relationship was found between symptom measures and measures of disability and help-seeking. Variables positively associated with general attitudes to seeking professional psychological help were: lower perceived stigma, and biological rather than person-based causal attributions for schizophrenia. Willingness to discuss mental health issues with a GP was predicted by the perceived helpfulness of the GP and by no other variable. Conclusions: Causal attributions and perceivedstigma rather than participants' levels of symptomatology and disability influence attitudes to help-seeking for mental health issues. Efforts to improve attitudes to help-seeking should focus on reducing stigma and improving mental health literacy regarding the causes of disorders.

scholarly journals Intention to seek professional psychological help among college students in Turkey: influence of help-seeking attitudes

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feyza Seyfi ◽  
Krishna C Poudel ◽  
Junko Yasuoka ◽  
Keiko Otsuka ◽  
Masamine Jimba
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Psychological Help ◽  
Help Seeking Attitudes ◽  
Professional Psychological Help

scholarly journals Trainee counselors’ experiences of receiving psychological help

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-438
Author(s):  
Fatma Kocaayan ◽  
Melike Koçyiğit Özyiğit
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Fourth Graders ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Psychological Help ◽  
Counseling Process ◽  
Professional Psychological Help ◽  
Interview Technique ◽  
Phenomenological Design

This study aimed to understand what trainee counselors, who received psychological help, were experiencing in the counseling process and how this process was related to their personal and professional development. The participants consisted of eight trainee counselors who were fourth graders with two of them being male and six female. In order to determine how trainee counselors understand the experience of receiving psychological help, the phenomenological design for qualitative research was used and the data was obtained through semi-structured interview technique. Content analysis was used to analyze the data. The findings were organized under the categories of "psychological help-seeking process," "experience of being a client," and "achievements of receiving psychological help." As a result of the study, it was found that the trainee counselors realized the need for psychological help and tried to reach resources of professional psychological help. While it was comfortable and secure to sit in the counseling chair, it was also stressful. Also, knowing the psychological counseling process influenced their counseling experience and they made some personal and professional achievements during this process. Findings are discussed and interpreted in light of literature, and some suggestions are presented.

Adaptation of the Devaluation–Discrimination Scale Into Turkish: A Comprehensive Psychometric Analysis

Assessment ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 107319112110392
Author(s):  
Ertuğrul Şahin ◽  
Nursel Topkaya
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Intraclass Correlation ◽  
Temporal Stability ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Psychological Help ◽  
Time Interval

The Devaluation–Discrimination Scale (DDS) is among the most frequently used stigma scales for measuring the perception of social stigma related to mental illness. The DDS is also frequently employed to test predictions of modified labeling theory and is modified to use for specific disorders, such as depression, substance abuse, and alcohol use disorders. Although modified versions of the DDS have been subjected to psychometric analyses, the original has never undergone a full psychometric evaluation. Thus, the aim of this study was to comprehensively examine the psychometric properties of the Turkish adaptation of the original DDS, with all positively keyed items, across seven studies in Turkish student and community samples ( N = 1,907). The results of the exploratory factor analysis indicated that a one-dimensional factor structure adequately explained the covariation among DDS items in a sample of college students. Moreover, the single-factor structure of the DDS was corroborated, and invariant across sex, age, educational level, mental health diagnosis status, and previous help-seeking experience among Turkish adults. The convergent and divergent validity of DDS scores also were supported by significant correlations in the hypothesized directions with self-stigma ( r = .26), social stigma ( r = .46), attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help ( r = −.24), and intention to seek psychological help scores ( r = −.24). The results of the reliability analyses suggested that the DDS has good temporal stability in a 1-month time interval ( r = .83, intraclass correlation coefficient = .83) and possesses high to excellent internal consistency reliabilities ranging from .88 to .92 across five studies. The examination of the distribution of total DDS scores indicated that there were no floor and ceiling effects in DDS scores across five different samples. The Turkish adaptation of the original DDS may be used as a valid and reliable scale to measure the devaluation and discrimination perceptions of college students and adults against people with mental illness.

scholarly journals Religious involvement, attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help, and preferences for alternative mental health settings

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Stefani Hathaway
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Health Facilities ◽  
Psychological Help ◽  
Help Seeking Attitudes ◽  
Professional Psychological Help ◽  
Mental Health Facilities ◽  
Mental Health Settings ◽  
Religious Factors

Religion is an important diversity variable; however, it is an understudied area in psychology. The purpose of this study was to explore ways that religious factors interact with help-seeking attitudes as well as preferences for different help sources. Participants were 236 church members from 4 Christian groups. They completed religious measures, a help-seeking measure, and responses to mock brochures for traditional, nontraditional, and Christian mental health facilities. Both demographic and religious variables were found to predict help-seeking attitudes, although the relationships between help-seeking and religious predictors were less clear. Denominational differences were found in many of the religious variables. Several religious variables were related to the brochure responses, and the four denominations showed different patterns of preference for the brochures. Limitations and implications for practice and research are discussed.

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